It matters not how long you live, but how well.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

I was never trained for anything

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

A global world needs global firewalls.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.